“Now is the only time there is.
Make your now
wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay.
Your life will have been magnificently lived
and invested, and when you die you will have
made a difference.”

The song was re-introduced in 1942 in the film
Casablanca, sung by
Dooley Wilson accompanied by pianist Elliot Carpenter[1]
and heard throughout the film as a
leitmotif.[2]
Wilson was unable to record a single of the song at the time due to a
musicians' strike, leading the studio to re-issue Vallee's 1931
recording and giving Vallee a number one hit in 1942.[3]

The song's famous opening line, "You must remember this...", is
actually the start of the song's chorus as it was originally written and
performed. Wilson did not sing the preceding verse in Casablanca,
however, and most subsequent recordings have followed the film's lead in
omitting it, leading to its being virtually unknown to most listeners.

In addition to the
American Film Institute including it as number two in their list of
the 100 best songs in film,[4]
National Public Radio included it in their NPR 100, the 1999
list of the most important American musical works of the 20th century as
compiled by their music editors.[5]...

GOOD NEWS:

We figured out what was going
wrong with my computer programs, so we'll be adding some of those
missing stockpiled items - beginning with the first three today.....

In light of this "revolting new
development", as our household is one of those Major Users of Bandwidth,
the remaining regular issues of the NNHS Newsletter THROUGH THE END OF MAY
will be mostly imageless.

Please save your images or documents,
as I'll not be able to post any of them, nor scan and post any new ones
of my own except in extreme cases of need. (If they're already in my files, that's different.)

This
will not apply of course to Memorial Editions. Once we return to
Fayetteville, this should no longer be an issue.

A fleet of five Union ironclads, including the USS Monitor, steamed up the James
River towards Richmond today. Since taking the naval base at Norfolk the lower
end of the river was undefended. The ships got within eight miles of the
Confederate capital when they came to Fort Darling, the defensive station on
Drewry’s Bluff. Obstructions in the river slowed them, and the cannons blasted
them. They retreated. Drewry’s Bluff was never taken.

Sunday, May 15, 1964RESACA RUMBLE ROLLS ROUGHLY

Gen. Sherman had his own army by this time, and he was fighting the men of
Joseph E. Johnston once again, this time at a little Georgia town called Resaca.
The battle had actually opened yesterday, but overnight Sherman had got his
entire force in position, and Johnston had got reinforcements from Gen. Polk. In
a separate action, some 247 students from Virginia Military Institute took part
in a battle against a larger Union force under Gen. Siegel. The Confederates
won, and the day is still celebrated as a holiday in Lexington, Va.

The
cost for the reunion will be $40 per person.Included in this cost is the rental of the Yacht Club, paper,
envelopes, printer ink, stamps, food, bartender, carver and server
fees. If any of you would like to make a monetary donation to help
underwrite the cost of the reunion, it will be greatly appreciated.

In
order to meet planning deadlines, please respond by July 8th
by returning the attached form, along with your check, made out to me,
Dee Bartram.

Updates
on the reunion will be sent out by via e-mail to those of you that I
have e-mail addresses for. Also, Carol Buckley Harty, Class of 1965,
has created a NNHS website at
http://nnhs65.com/NNHS-Newsletters-2011.htmlwhere I will
also post updates.

NOTE: If you are going to attend Friday only, I
still need to know in order to give the restaurant a count. Please
extend me and the restaurant the courtesy of letting me know if you will
be there by either e-mailing me at
dhbartram@cox.net or calling me at (757) 868-8443.

If you are unable to attend the reunion, please e-mail or
call me with any e-mail address updates or home address change updates.

… and you
have not yet been contacted by the Reunion Committee, then please get in
touch with us. We want to include you in our reunion, which is scheduled
for September
16 &17, 2011, at the David Student Union on the CNU campus.

From Joe Drewry ('58) of VA - 05/12/11 - "Hall of Fame dinner is this Sunday":

One of our NNHS heroes will be inducted into the
Peninsula Athletic Hall of Fame Sunday night. Buddy Lex
starred at NNHS in both football and basketball and graduated in
(June) 1944. He then became a triple-threat tailback for
W&M. In 1949, Lex threw 18 touchdown
passes, a national record at that time. Also in 1949, Lex was runner-up
to Sam Snead as Virginia’s Athlete of the Year.

Buddy is one of 6 inductees to be honored at the Peninsula Athletic Hall
of Fame during the May 15, 2011 (this Sunday night) ceremony at the Boo
Williams Sports Complex. Buddy is the only one of the 6 inductees
that has not had a single person make a reservation in his name. He is
also the only NNHS inductee.

NNHS graduated it's last class in 1971, 40 years ago. Since that time,
Typhoon alums have prided themselves on keeping the history, the
memories, and their support of each other going. We often sign-off our
emails to each other with

TYPHOONS FOREVER

The lack of any Typhoon
response to what should be a celebration of one of our own is an
embarrassment.

There is still time to make a reservation and be there to honor the
memory of Buddy Lex.

The banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Boo Williams Sportsplex (5
Armistead Pointe Parkway Hampton, VA 23666). This is the brand new
location of the Hall and is reached by taking the Hampton Parkway that
begins at Harpersville Rd. and crossing Armistead Ave..

The event will feature video highlights of each athlete’s career and
will be emceed by WVEC-13 News sports reporter Scott Cash. Cost is
$50.00 per person, including the meal.

If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're
spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually
curious, there is still hope!

Why Go To Church?

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained
that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday... "I've gone for 30
years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like
203,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one
of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting
theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column,
much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone
wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked
some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire
menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all
nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife
had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.
Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be
spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to
something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and
receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual
nourishment!

All right, now that you're done reading, send it on! I think everyone
should read this! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say,
"Jesus, could you get that for me?"

Ordinary
forgiveness is 'letting bygones be bygones'. A certain willingness to
forgive is implied but the belief something wrong happened is never
questioned. "You did that to me, but I'll let you off the hook and
forgive you."

Research based at Seattle University, WA showed that ordinary
forgiveness:
(a) is universally difficult.
(b) takes a long time - typically years. (Success was defined as finally
feeling peaceful about the situation.)
(c) The more people tried to 'will' forgiveness, the longer it took.
(d) Most people required extensive therapy before any movement occurred
at all.

Radical Forgiveness, on the other hand, has none of these difficulties.
It can be virtually instantaneous; it is easy to do; it requires no
therapy and very little intelligence beyond being able to follow some
very simple steps.

Holding on to the belief that 'a crime' has occurred while trying to
forgive gives traditional forgiveness the quality of an oxymoron. How
can you can possibly forgive if you are invested in that judgment? No
wonder it takes years! Qualities of compassion, humility and tolerance
move us towards it, but they do not, in my view, constitute forgiveness
itself. So when it does finally occur maybe time has simply worn down
our attachment to our judgments. When we say "time heals" perhaps we are
recognizing that we will someday simply become weary of holding on. But
oh, what a struggle!

Radical Forgiveness, on the other hand, is easy and instantaneous
because it is a shift in perception that allows you to understand that,
in truth, looked at from the perspective of the spiritual 'big picture,'
nothing wrong ever happened.

What brings about such a radical shift in perception - especially in
situations where one feels very victimized and hurt? Surprisingly, it
requires only a willingness to accept the possibility that life is not
simply a series of random and haphazard events but is, in fact, the
unfolding of a Divine plan that is unfolding for us exactly how it needs
to unfold for our spiritual growth. In other words, every event, however
pleasant or unpleasant, has been called forth by a Higher Aspect of
ourselves that knows exactly what we need for our own healing. When we
live more out of that idea than the victim story, life begins to work
perfectly.

So how do we get there? Well, lack of forgiveness is nothing more than
stuck energy, caused by past judgments, criticisms, blame and
resentments. The way forward is use tools or processes that help us
release that stuck energy, raise our vibration and become the loving
beings we have the potential to be.

THE PROCESS OF RADICAL FORGIVENESS

In my workshops, I help people to shift the energy and move into Radical
Forgiveness by basically following these five steps:

1. Tell the Story
You must begin from where you are. You are a spiritual being having a
human experience that involves emotional experiences. We make it up that
emotions are undesirable and wrong, so when we get upset about something
we make up a 'victim's story' and blame others for our unhappiness.
Having that story heard and witnessed is the first step to letting it
go. Likewise, the first step in releasing victimhood is to own it fully.
So, in this step, you tell your story, and it is honored as your truth
in the moment.

2. Feel the
Feelings
Here you are encouraged to feel the feelings. It is the vital step that
many so-called spiritual people want to leave out thinking that they
shouldn't have 'negative' feelings. That's denial and misses the crucial
point that the feelings is where the authentic power is and that our
strength, in fact, lies in our vulnerability and our willingness to show
up as fully human. You cannot heal what you don't feel. When people
access their pain, this is the beginning of their healing.

But this is not necessarily digging up the past. In fact, doing so is
not necessary at all. Whatever is upsetting you now represents the past
and following the feelings (the energy), as they are occurring while you
tell your story, automatically heals the past pain. It is not even
necessary to know what the original pain was. That's why I say that
Radical Forgiveness requires no therapy.

3. Collapse the
Story
This takes the power out of the victim story you made up. The Navajo
Indians had a ceremony for doing this. Anyone with a grievance could
come to the circle three times to tell their story, and they would be
heard. On the fourth occasion everyone would turn their backs. "Enough
already! Your story is just a story. There's no real truth to it - it is
just an illusion. We have heard it three times and we no longer wish to
give it power. Let it go and then let yourself move towards what is
really true."

4. Do a Radical
Forgiveness Reframe
Here we replace the 'illusionary' story with another story - the Radical
Forgiveness 'story.' This one says that what appeared to have happened,
far from being a tragedy, was in fact exactly what we wanted to
experience and was in that sense, absolutely perfect.

This is often very difficult to accept, but the good thing is it does
not require you see WHY it is perfect, or that you must GET the lesson
involved. It is nearly always beyond our ability to comprehend anyway,
so it's a waste of time trying to figure it out. Willingness is all that
is required You just have to be willing to open to the idea that there
is a gift in it somewhere, and then choose peace. It really is that
simple. When we get used to thinking this way, it's amazing how simple
and easy life becomes. It's so freeing to stop resisting (judging) life
and surrender to what wants to naturally occur. Life with Radical
Forgiveness can be very sweet.

5. Integration
After you have allowed yourself to be willing to see the perfection in
the situation, it is necessary to integrate that change at the cellular
level. That means integrating it into the physical, mental, emotional
and spiritual bodies so it becomes a part of who you are. It's like
saving what you have done on the computer to the hard drive. Only then
will it become permanent. I find that breath work is the best way to
integrate this work and I seldom ever do a Radical Forgiveness workshop
without what I call a 'Satori' breath session. Other ways to integrate
is through speaking affirmations, walking, doing forgiveness worksheets,
ritual and ceremony.

In the Forgiveness Tools section of my book I give extensive instruction
on how to use the forgiveness worksheet. This simple tool embodies all
the above steps and has proven most effective in helping people to shift
the energy around situations. The same is true of a process called The
13 Steps to Forgiveness, which is the same process but on CD. It simply
requires you to listen to 13 questions to which you answer "Yes." It
sounds so simple - and it really is. But it is also extremely powerful.
Radical Forgiveness is the only real forgiveness. It is simple, quick
and brings immediate relief. This forgiveness is permanent and when one
has integrated it well enough into everyday life for it to become a way
of life, life becomes infinitely less stressful, more peaceful and a
whole lot happier.

About the Author:

Colin's Mission Statement: "My Mission is to Raise the Consciousness of
the Planet and to Create a World of Forgiveness by 2012"

Colin Tipping is the SelfGrowth.com Official Guide to Forgiveness and
the creator of what has come to be recognized as the most powerful
leading-edge technology for personal and spiritual growth today -
Radical Forgiveness.

He is the acknowledged authority on the application of this technology
to the "healing" of individuals, families, races, corporations, and
communities...

2. Thursday, June 2, 2011 - The NNHS Class of 1955 holds
Lunch Bunch gatherings on the first Thursday of every month at Steve & John's
Steak House on Jefferson Avenue just above Denbigh Boulevard in Newport News at
11:00 AM. The luncheon is not limited to just the Class of '55; if you have
friends in that year, go visit with them.

3. Wednesday,
June 8, 2011 - The NNHS Class of June 1942 meets at noon on the second Wednesday
of every other month for a Dutch treat lunch at the James River Country Club,
1500 Country Club Road. PLEASE JOIN THEM. Give or take a few years makes no
difference. Good conversation, food and atmosphere. For details, call Jennings
Bryan at 803-7701 for reservations.